Dieses Papier beschäftigt sich mit dem Herdenverhalten (“Herding”) vonInvestmentfondsmanagern in Folge von Analystenempfehlungen. Dabei wird zunächstuntersucht, ob sich überhaupt ein gleichgerichtetes Verhalten der Fondsmanager nachVeröffentlichung einer Analystenempfehlung beobachten...

The overvaluation hypothesis (Miller 1977) predicts that a) stocks are overvalued inthe presence of short selling restrictions and that b) the overvaluation increases in the degree ofdivergence of opinion. We design an experiment that allows us to test these predictions in thelaboratory. The...

An empirically well-established finding is that equity portfolios are concentratedin the domestic equity market of the investor. Previous theoreticaland empirical analyses have mainly focused on institutional explanations andlargely neglected individual behavior. In this study we report the...

This paper focuses on egocentric biases in financial decisions. Subjects first designa portfolio, whereby each combination of assets yields the same expected returnand variance of returns. They are then confronted with two alternative portfolios;the average portfolio and the portfolio of one’s...

This paper focuses on egocentric biases in financial decisions. Subjects first design a portfolio, whereby each combination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. (...)

The authors determine the time horizon on the risk of stock investments.